Not exact matches
Sometimes the commission will be based on a percentage of the
bond's price, and this percentage may decline as the
size of the
transaction increases.
Chart 1) Yields of the S&P National AMT - Free Municipal
Bond Index and annual average transaction costs of retail size municipal bond trades of bonds in the in
Bond Index and annual average
transaction costs of retail
size municipal
bond trades of bonds in the in
bond trades of
bonds in the index:
The good news is the
transaction costs of retail
size trades for municipal
bonds have dropped to low points since we started tracking this data in 2011.
Features Understanding What
Bond Market Liquidity Means for Your Portfolio The ability to buy and sell with ease can be transitory and depends on both the market for the asset and the
size of the
transaction.
The price you pay for a
bond is based on a host of variables, including interest rates, supply and demand, credit quality, maturity and call features, tax status, state of issuance, market events and the
size of the
transaction.
FINRA's amended Rule 2232 requires that when a retail customer buys or sells a corporate or agency
bond, the trade confirmation must disclose the mark - up or mark - down the member firm received in the
transaction when «the member also executes an offsetting principal trade in the same security on the same trading day, which in the aggregate meet [s] or exceed [s] the
size of the customer -LSB-'s] trade.»